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FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
In STOC’05, Ahn, Hopper and Langford introduced the notion of covert computation. A covert computation protocol is one in which parties can run a protocol without knowing if oth...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Submodular maximization generalizes many important problems including Max Cut in directed/undirected graphs and hypergraphs, certain constraint satisfaction problems and maximum f...
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We propose a proof-theoretic approach for gaining evidence that certain parameterized problems are not fixedparameter tractable. We consider proofs that witness that a given prop...
ECCC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Abstract: We give an explicit construction of a pseudorandom generator against lowdegree polynomials over finite fields. Pseudorandom generators against linear polynomials, known...